Improving the quality of natural language requirements specifications through natural language requirements patterns

Proceedings - Sixth IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, CIT 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 199-

  Tjong, Sri Fatimah ^a   Hallam, Nasreddine ^a   Hartley, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Guiding rules; Language patterns; Natural language requirements specifications

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LANGUAGES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

GUIDING RULES; NATURAL LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS PATTERNS; REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENTS; REQUIREMENTS STATEMENTS;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 34547275923     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIT.2006.103     Document Type: Conference Paper

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